Category: Review
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‘The Fall’ is More Than Just a Feast for the Eyes
In addition to being a visual treat, Tarsem Singh’s criminally underseen fantasy film is also pretty moving.
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‘Mother’ Never Lets You Guess Its Next Move
You can never be too certain where Bong Joon-ho’s 2009 drama is going to go next.
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‘The Grifters’ is Elevated by Its Female Leads
This 1990 adaptation of the 1963 Jim Thompson novel wouldn’t make as much of an impression without Anjelica Huston and Annette Bening.
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‘Strange Fascination’: An Auspicious Beginning to a Compelling Partnership
This noir-adjacent melodrama from 1952 marked the start of a six-film-long collaboration between director Hugo Haas and actress Cleo Moore.
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Shadows and Light
Joseph H. Lewis’ lean and mean ‘The Big Combo’ is a low-key triumph of the film noir form.
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‘Waist Deep’ is Shallow Fun
This Tyrese Gibson- and Meagan Good-fronted noir benefits from being not much more than solidly made and entertaining.
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‘Love at Large’ is a Seductive, Off-Kilter Noir
Alan Rudolph’s stylish neo-noir has one foot in the past and the other in the present.
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Jean Gillie is the Reason to See ‘Decoy’
Jack Bernhard’s 1946 noir never completely grabs you, but Gillie’s impressively vicious performance almost makes up for it.
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‘Visible Secret’ is a Low-Key, Surprisingly Spooky Romantic Comedy
Ann Hui’s 2001 movie posits what a rom-com might look like with a ‘Sixth Sense’-esque underlay.
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‘The Happiness of the Katakuris’’ Audacity Can Only Get It So Far
Takashi Miike’s exceedingly odd horror-comedy-musical hybrid is, at the very least, truly original.
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Sweating It Out with Charli XCX and Troye Sivan
For 425: The pop stars concluded their coheadlining Sweat Tour at Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena this week.
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Heaven and Hell
‘Island of Lost Souls’ is still chilling nearly a century later.
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